The Avatar's songs are
a mix of drum & bass and hiphop with delightfully Sonic R levels of corny vocals that I found myself memorizing and singing along to before long.
March 13, 2015 • Our recurring series for careful listeners, this week featuring
a mix of drum fills handpicked by All Songs Considered co-host Robin Hilton.
Not exact matches
• Scatter a spoonful
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of peanut, almond or cashew butter And now, on that note, I'd like to let you in on my... *
drum roll *
«It's like a centrifuge together with a rotary
drum,» Martí said
of the
mixing gear.
Jackson Pollock, for instance, used
drums of World War II surplus paints for his splashiest effects, and he often added texture by
mixing in things such as cigarette butts.
The burning chants
of accusation and damnation begin on «Fyrecross» welcoming a Van Halen inspired eruption with guitars and
drums mixing with old - school Metallica - like build up.
Normally, this hand wringing would all feel like Oscar bloggers justifying their own vocation by
drumming up artificial suspense, but the fact is that more films out
of this year's nominees are still thought
of as being in the
mix than have been ruled out.
Meanwhile, Alexandre Desplat's score
mixes taiko
drums with weirdly jazzy woodwind, while the woozy tones
of the 60s West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band rub up against Prokofiev and nods to Seven Samurai.
These scenes are made all the more striking by the film's frenetic sound, a
mix of Ludwig Göransson's
drum - heavy score and Kendrick Lamar's feisty hip - hop, which adds another layer
of old - meets - new to Black Panther's unique futurism.
While he was in charge
of everything else, I contributed
drums and then
mixed and mastered the tracks as well.
The
mix of square & triangle wave channels, synth
drums, and 8 - bit white noise written in a rock style made for an intense listening experience that matched the level's wild obstacle course.
Adapted for the Wii, which replaced the
drum with a
mix of motion controls and traditional button / stick action, the result is not quite as unique but is still tremendously fun.
There is a lot
of 90s
drum n bass,
mixed with rock,
mixed with MIDI tunes, y ’ know, the usual stuff that used to plague games for the Sega CD and the 3DO.
Jason Moran will perform live with a piano, a
mixer and a
drum machine, interacting both with the artist's movements and with the changes
of scene.
Musicians too took notice: Schwitters imagined a score in which the tones would be produced by «violin,
drum, trombone, sewing machine, grandfather clock, steam
of water, etc.,» 40 years before John Cage composed pieces using a watering can, a iron pipe, a bottle
of wine, a grand piano, five radios and an electric
mixer.
After every use, you would rotate the
drum clockwise with the rotating rod at the front
of the toilet to aerate and
mix.
One adds a
mix of peat moss and sawdust and rotate the
drum to
mix it all up.
It feels a lot less like sitting on a pile
of waste when it is all
mixed up in the
drum, somehow more high - tech when you add the bit
of muscle.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives enough high - mid presence to keep its attack punchy and cut through the layers
of the
mix, but it's the highs that seem most boosted, pushing the vinyl crackle typically relegated to background status to the forefront.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives the ideal amount
of high - mid presence, accentuating its sharp attack and allowing it to remain punchy and push through the layers
of the
mix.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop's attack gets plenty
of high - mid punch to allow it to slice through the layers
of the
mix, and the vinyl crackle typically relegated to background status gets some added boosting and comes forward here.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop gets a moderate helping
of high - mid presence, allowing its attack to stay just sharp enough to slice through the layers
of the
mix.
With Apple rumored to finally slash the iPhone's bulbous bezels, and wacky phones like Xiaomi's China - only Mi
Mix drumming up online hype, not to mention rumors
of a bezelless Galaxy S8, 2017 will be the year the industry declares all - out war on space around the screen.
The guitar strums manage to sound natural, but the HA - MR77X's delivery
of the
drums mixes the best
of the strong - but - refined bass response with the worst
of the highly sculpted mids and highs — the thump
of the
drums is there, but the attack sounds tinny and unnatural.
The big speaker also deftly handled the complex
mix of Robert Plant's vocals, Jimmy Page's distorted guitar and John Bonham's big
drums on Led Zeppelin's «Trampled Under Foot» — sounds that smaller speakers can mash together.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loops receives a solid high - mid presence, allowing its sharp attack to retain most
of its edge and slice through the layers
of the
mix.
The guitar plucks in the opening had plenty
of string texture, and the dense
mix left enough room for the vocals and
drums when things really kicked in.
The attack on the kick
drum loop here gets a bunch
of added high - mid edge, and it cuts through the
mix with intensity, while the sub-bass synth hits that punctuate the beat are delivered with booming low - end.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop gets plenty
of high - mid presence to highlight its attack and push it to the front
of the
mix.
The bass and
drums in both songs are slightly muted, and Keith Richards» vocals don't stand in front
of the
mix nearly as much as Steve Tyler's higher voice does, but all
of the components are clearly there and no single aspect
of either
mix is given overwhelming presence that completely blots out other instruments.
Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop's attack gets the ideal amount
of high - mid presence, keeping its attack sharp and allowing it to cut through the layers
of the
mix as a prominent force.
The kick
drum loop on Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild» receives the same treble edge regardless
of the EQ mode, sharpening its attack so that it slices through the layered
mix.
The guitar strumming on this track gets plenty
of high - mid and high frequency presence, making its attack one
of the more noticeable elements
of the
mix, while the
drums take on a more subtle role.
The
drums» round thump and Callahan's baritone vocals receive plenty
of low and low - mid richness, but the vocals and guitar strumming also benefit from a high - mid that brings out the definition, clarity, and crispness
of the
mix.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives enough high - mid presence to keep its attack fairly sharp, allowing it to slice through the layers
of the
mix.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop gets an ideal level
of high - mid presence, so we hear its sharp attack slice through the layers as one
of the more prominent aspects
of the
mix.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop gets enough high - mid presence to cut through the layers
of the
mix, but again, it sounds far more crisp when aligned with your ears, and a little muffled when not.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives enough high - mid presence to stay sharp and slice through the layers
of the
mix, though we've heard this track sound slightly more crisp before.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives plenty
of high - mid presence, allowing its attack to retain its sharp punch and push through the multilayered
mix.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop receives the ideal level
of high - mid presence, allowing its sharp attack to slice easily through the layers
of the
mix.
Similarly, the headset tackled the low - end
of the bassline and
drums of MC Lars» «This Gigantic Robot Kills» with plenty
of force and definition, but it pushed the vocals further back in the
mix than ideal, and overwhelmed the twangy ska guitar rhythm.
On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the kick
drum loop's attack lacks the high - mid sharpness that allows it to slice through the
mix's dense layers — instead, it gets an extra helping
of low - mids and lows, so the loop's sustain steals the show rather than the kick
drum.
A 42 - inch polished concrete table seats four; the seating is a
mix of slipcovered armchairs and
drum ottomans trimmed with a nailhead detail.